Concorde Quotes

• The moment right now, it's a tragically regressive time we live in, you know. We just grounded the Concorde. Where's the future? We've lost the future.

  Aleksandra Mir

  Moments, Lost, Grounded

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• The Concorde is great. It gives you three extra hours to find your luggage.

  Bob Hope

  Funny, Humor, Giving

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• It is not unreasonable to look upon Concorde as a miracle.

  Brian Trubshaw

  Miracle, Looks, Aviation

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• I'm very jealous of an era where people were inventing something so beautiful as the Concorde and thinking that's the next step. I'm jealous of an era when people thought, "Let's finally go to the Moon."

  Aleksandra Mir

  Beautiful, Jealous, Moon

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• We will be producing supersonic planes which will go far, far faster than Concordes. New York to Tokyo could be less than an hour. You could be traveling at 19,000 miles an hour orbitally.

  Richard Branson

  New York, Space, Tokyo

  "Richard Branson Wants To Build A Plane That Can Go From New York To Tokyo In 'Less Than An Hour'" by Paul Szoldra, www.businessinsider.com. May 6, 2014.

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• I've made a poster at home. You know the iconic image of Che Guevara, the black and red graphic of his face? I think it's the perfect graphic, the best graphic ever made. I cut a Concorde out and put it over his head so it's Che looking up and the Concorde going by. Both are dead, maybe obsolete.

  Aleksandra Mir

  Home, Cutting, Thinking

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• I’m going to kill myself. I should go to Paris and jump off the Eiffel Tower. I’ll be dead. you know, in fact, if I get the Concorde, I could be dead three hours earlier, which would be perfect. Or wait a minute. It -- with the time change, I could be alive for six hours in New York but dead three hours in Paris. I could get things done, and I could also be dead.

  Woody Allen

  Witty, New York, Humorous

  Woody Allen, Robert E. Kapsis, Kathie Coblentz (2006). “Woody Allen: Interviews”, p.160, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I should go to Paris and jump off of the Eiffel Tower. If I took the Concorde, I could be dead three hours earlier.

  Woody Allen

  Witty, Humorous, Paris

  "Fictional character: Joe". "Everyone Says I Love You", 1996.

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• I did a film called Dracula and it was very nice because I had lots of trips to New York on Concorde.

  Julie Harris

  New York, Nice, Film

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• If they had Nautilus on the Concorde, I would work out all the time.

  Linda Evangelista

  Work Out, Ifs

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• There's more chance of me flying Concorde to the moon blindfolded than there is of you taking Wales to the World Cup.

  Robbie Savage

  Soccer, Football, Moon

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• To squander a fortune in public money, billions and billions, stubbornly carrying on with a Concorde we can only sell to ourselves.

  Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber

  Carrying On, Aviation, Predictions

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• We're constantly buying airplane tickets; we travel on the Concorde.

  Eva Herzigova

  Travel, Airplane, Buying

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• What patient can trust the knowledge of a physician without reputation or furniture, in a period when publicity is all-powerful and when the government gilds the lamp posts on the Place de la Concorde in order to dazzle the poor?

  Honore de Balzac

  Powerful, Government, Order

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• Our resources will diminish in the coming decades at a time when hunger for energy grows dramatically in China and other parts of Asia. Eventually, it will just be impossible to fly - normal flights will become as expensive as flying with the Concorde.

  Hermann E. Ott

  Flying, Energy, Asia

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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